Municipality of Turin (Italy)
Turin is the heart of a metropolitan area with almost 2,000,000 inhabitants. The city of Turin is the fourth largest Italian city for the population, the third economic-productive complex of the country and today constitutes one of Italy's most important university, artistic, tourist, scientific and cultural poles. Turin has a GDP of approx. 37.5 billion euros, ranking Turin among the top 100 cities in the world with more wealth available. Considered one of the European capitals of the car, Turin and Belt have some of the most important companies in the sector: FCA Italy, Comau, Teksid, Magneti Marelli, Italdesign Giugiaro, GM Powertrain Torino, Pininfarina, Iveco. Also important is the contribution of industrial automation to the growing internationalization of the Turin economy, with the presence of companies such as Prima Industrie and Comau, with the latter (among the top 4 in Europe for sales), which manufactures robotics for the whole world Leading automotive groups. Other important companies in Turin are: Lavazza, Caffè Vergnano, Martini & Rossi, Alpitour, Reply, Avio Aero, Basic Net, Carlo Pignatelli, Sparco, Seven, Kelémata and Armando Testa Group. In the metropolitan city of Turin there are also several Italian subsidiaries of foreign companies such as Suzuki, Bavaria, Diageo, Michelin, Kimberly-Clark, Petronas and Vodafone Italia. Turin is the epicenter of the ScaleUP Circus programme, presented by X23 and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, together with SEERC, EBAN, SCAALE, Digital Europe, and Innsomnia, under the Startup Europe 2017 line of the H2020 ICT-32-2017 call. In Turin a subsidiary office of X23 is placed.